Device for plumbing spinning-spindles.



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rm.- 677,994. f Patent ell July 9, l90l.

u. KELLY.

(Application I106 I01. 88, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES- PATENT FFIGE.

EDWARD M. LANG, JR.,

OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

DEV|CE FOR PLUMBING SPINNING-ASPINDLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,994, dated July 9,1901.

Application filed November 23, 1900. Serial Not 37,430. (No model.)

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD KELLY, a citifurcations being sufficient to permit the pas- I sage of the shank of the spindle-case. Said wedges are placed one upon the other and between the top of the rail and the shoulder on the outside of the spindle-case and are provided with means for rotating the wedges upon each other and around the shank.

In the drawings making a part of this specification, Figure 1 is an elevation of a spindle and rail, showing the plumbing device in use. Fig. 2 is a top plan of two of the wedges, one superimposed upon the other. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same in the position shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a sideelevation of the wedges shown in Fig. 2, the thickest parts being brought nearer together; andFig. 5 is a top plan of a Wedge.

In the drawings,'a represents the rail, 1) the spindle-case, c a shoulder on said case adapted to support the spindle-case upon the.

rail, the shank h of the spindle-case passing downward through a hole in the rail (shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1) and being secured beneath the rail by means of a nut g. The Wedges d d are preferably of like construction, so that the description of one is the description of all. eter of the wedge is circular, having upon one side a greater thickness, which diminishes regularly to the other edge, as shown in Fig. 3. At the thinnest part of the circle the material is removed, leaving a bifurcation the width of which is equal to or ..very slightly larger than the diameter of the shank, while it extends into the wedge to such a distance that the part of the wedge left remaining at its thickest part is equal to the difierence bebecome out of line.

The outline or outer perim tween the circumference of the shank and the circumference of the shoulder a. I prefer in actual construction to remove from the disk" a circular portion concentric with the circle or outside circumference of the wedge,

together with that part of the annulus occupyin g the thinnest part of the wedge, leaving the wedge of the shape shown in Fig. 2. The wedge is also provided, preferably at the thickest part, with an earf, (see Fig. 2,) which may be turned upward, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4; but any convenient means for rotween the rail a and shoulder 0, one wedge tating the wedge may be substituted for the being imposed'upon the other, as shown in Fig. 1. It will be readily seen that by loos ening the nut g the wedges can bemoved one upon the other, thus restoring the spindlecase to a perpendicular position when it has This vertical or perpen dicular position ofthe spindle-case is very desirable, as well as a convenient means by which the spindle-case can be restored to its perpendicular position. heretofore used for this purpose; butin order to apply them not only must the nut be loosened but removed from the shank of the spindle-case and the case from the rail in order that such disks may be placed in position,

Disks have been 1 and the spindle-case and nut must then be replaced." The same process must be gone through when one or more of the disks become worn or broken, so that its replacement may be made. The device which is described in this specification is therefore much more convenient and much more easilyapplied,

both in the case of original application and in placed one upon another and interposed betogether with means for rotating said Wedges, tween said rail and said shoulder and adapted substantially as and for the purposes set I5 to rotate around said case, substantially as forth.

5 and for the purposes set forth. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 2. In a plumbing device for spindles, the my invention I have hereunto set my hand combination with a spindle-case having a prothis 12th day of November, A. D. 1900. jecting shoulder thereon and a supportingr rail, of Wedges having bifurcations adapted HAROLD BELLY 10 to receive the shank of the spindle-case, said I In presence ofrail, of bifurcated wedges, said Wedges being I der and adapted to rotate around said case,

Wedges being placed one upon another and GEO. E. BIRD, interposed between said rail and said shoul- E. M. LANG, Jr. 

